Re: slow Internet transfer times

[milton@cam.org]

To all,

I now regret having included, at the last minute, the first 2 lines of my postings.

My intention was simply to inform anyone who might be interested that I did try
to search the 'debian-user' archive only to find that:

     1. I had to search the archive manually;
     2. I had to do so 1 page at a time;

        With approximately 400 postings per page, 10 such pages 
        per month I calculated that it would take an enormous amount 
        of time to search the archive. Furthermre, I made a mistake, 
        there are almost 10 not 2 years worth of archives.

        That means (10 years * 12 months * 10 pages per month * 400 
        postings per page = ~480,000 postings total).

IMJ, expecting anyone to searching 1/2 million postings manually is not
reasonable.

I never expected anyone to do the research on my behalf. I did, however, hope
that *if* anyone knew of a solution the problems I posted they would be kind
enough to take the time to send it to me.

BTW, I worked as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer for 5 years during which
time I worked exclusively with UNIX. Throughout that period I solved 90+% of the
problems I had, on my own using only the man pages and the printed documentation
that came with the systems. *All* 5 UNIX systems I worked with (including 
installation, maintenance, and the testing of software) were easier to install
and configure than Debian GNU/Linux Woody.

Quoting Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com>:

> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 01:31:41PM -0500, milton@cam.org wrote:
> > 1st I have not had time to check 2 years worth of mailing list archives 
> > to see if there is already a answer to this problem. Soo...
> > 
> Hi Milton,
> this and other mailing lists are volunteer efforts. Our time is as
> valuable as yours. It is very rude to say that you have no intension of
> doing any work to fix your problem and expect us to use our time to
> compensate for your last of effort. Please do SOME work to fix your
> problem: use google, read the documentation in /usr/share/doc, in the
> man pages, at the packages web site, on the debian bugs web site BEFORE
> you ask us. after doing so, you will be more educated when asking us 
> specific questions and will be better able to fix new problems. No one
> learn *nix by simply asking for help at ever turn. You will make your
> task of learning *nix ten times harder and longer if you follow this
> path and will piss-off everybody(not recommended).
> Cheers,
> Kev
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